Things I Don't Get

[forsyth]

Okay, so, The Incredibles. Really good movie. So, Syndrome, the villain. He's obviously a villain, what with the killing supers to perfect each generation of his bot he was gonna send to attack the city. Right, got that.

So, his secondary motivation, though, was to sell off his inventions after he used them, and then "when everyone is special, no one is."

That's quite frankly one of the stupidest lines I've ever heard. Okay, yeah, when everyone can fly, being able to fly isn't unique, but it's still special. And damn useful. That's not really a villain motivation. For all that it'd overthrow the current status-quo, something most heroes don't do. Or maybe I'm just weird and reading too much into it.

Comments

[evilcarp.livejournal.com]

Everybody else is making good points that I won't repeat. Though, I do want to say that I frequently agree with the motivations of super villains. Not their villainy actions, but a lot of the time, I think they've got the right idea. So saying that Syndrome's motivation doesn't seem like supervillain motivation because it's doesn't seem like a bad thing doesn't make sense to me. Parly because I hate fucking superheroes.

[forsythferret.livejournal.com]

Part of it, I think, is the supervillains are easy to sympathize with, when done well. Because they're the guys who are going out and trying to change something, or actually DO something. The heroes are generally content to dink around and beat up muggers until something happens to make them act. Superheroes are fundamentally lazy and creatures of the status quo.